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'" ' f i Farm, Garden and Household. Transplanting Large Trees. i I hare succeeded in transplanting large trees, even larger than those spoken of heretofore, in the following 1 manner: About the commencement of r freezing weather, dig a deep trench about the trees desired to be trans- ^ planted, leaving a ball of earth abont 8 eight feet in diameter, and cutting off a uuoh roots as are in the way in excava- c ting the trenoh, having previously braoed the trees against the actions of winds, by means of strong wires ex- * tending from their tops to the tops of t other trees, about whicn trenohes have a net been dug. After a month or two t of freezing weather, the ball of earth inclosed by the trench beoomes frozen quite solid. By disconnecting the wire . brace and attaching a rope to the tree top, each of the trees thus dealt with , may be tipped over, the frozen ball of , novlVt f/\ iKo vnnfa TKo VU AliUAIJ UUUVllii^ IV VUO AWVD? XUV tops of the trees are then trimmed sufficiently to compensate for the reduction in the amount of root caused by trenching. By the use of shears and tacle the butt of the tree with the ball of earth may be placed upon a stout sledge, fastened by chains, and ' the tree may then be dragged to the plaoe it is desired to oocupy. Excavations having been made of sufficient capacity, the trees are then set np and f braced by wires running to stakes ^ driven in the ground at some distanoe. t Whatever space is left after the ball is ^ placed in the excavation should be filled t in with earth. Early in the spring g more earth should be thrown into those 'fl spaces and consolidated as much as r possible by pouring water upon the ^ earth, which will cause it to beoome far ( more compact than any other means. i Of tea trees transplanted in this manner, only one died. This method is somewhat expensive, but is probably the best?Cor. American Artisan. Mice In Orchard*. The Genhantown Telegraph, commends the following way of preventing the ravages of mice among the yonng trees in the orchard : There was a Sreat deal said last spring of the injury one to young apple trees during last winter bv mice, and the only remedy that we Lave yet seen suggested is to stamp snow firmly around the trees. This is, however, not believed to be a remedy at all, and we doubt if it is of much advantage. But our method is a "remedy," and we have tried to impress the fact upon our contemporaries for the past twenty years. It is simply to bandage up the stems of the trees with any cotton or woolen cloths, if old muslin with two or three wrappings letting the bandage go into the ground an inch or two, and Bix or eight inohes above the ground, and tie np. This Bhould be renewed every autumn, if necessary, until the trees are large enough not to be injured. This method will keep out the borer also, as we have stated on several occasions, and men- t tion in another place. Rabbits oan c gnaw, when the stems are small ^ enough, two feet from the ground, and t wouia require tne bandage to be much higher. Tarring would help as a pro- f tection, but we have known in many j cases the bandage to be all-sufficient. c Watering Cattle. r * There are two seasons of the year in c which farmers are very liable to give / their cattle an insufficient supply of c good water, and these two seasons are c midsummer and midwinter. When the f pasture fields are not supplied with v running water, the animals, in summer, v are made to drink from stagnant pools, ^ many timeB as insufficiently supplied as p the wells ; and in the winter water is given usually but once a day, and the e work of watering left to the hired man, f who has not always individual interest or patience enough to give cattle time to take water as slowly as they wish to in very cold weather. There are but few farms nnsupplied with springs or creeks; but a good supply of water may bo found by digging, and after the supply is obtained, there Bhould be the individual attention of the owner given to the matter of seeing that the animals are provided with all that they may desire. Surface water is the best, for it is the provision of nature, and if somewhat impregnated with earth is none the worse, and cattle seem to prefer it in this way to the pure. There is a vast difference, however, between rily and stagnant water.? Ohio Farmer. Destroying Curcullos. The following statement from a correspondent of the Germantowu Telegraph is of great interest to all who are cultivating plum trees. He says : I have seen various methods for keeping these insects off plum trees, but none ?o simple nor yet so effectual as the following: Soak corn cobs in sweetened water until thoroughly saturated ; then suspend them to the limbs of the treeB a little while after blossoming, being sure to burn the cobs after the fruit ripens, as they will be found full of insects. A good plan is to change the cobs every few weeks. My theory is this? that the insects deposit their eggs in the cobs in preference to doing so in the young plums. The first season I tried it upon one or two trees only, and in the summer was rewarded by a good crop of as fine plums as ever ripened, while those on the other trees fell off when about half grown. Next spring found sweetened corn cobs dangling from the limbs of all my plum trees, and the summer found them full of delicious fruit. Tender Fooled Horsek. An old man who had much experience in handling and dealing in horses for more than half a century, said to me recently that he hud never known a horse to get tender footed that was kept loose in a shed and yard, or in a boxed stall. The turning aronnd and treading with their forward feet in the manure keep them constantly moist and soft. His theory appeared perfectly * reasonable to me. T linvo Vin* atoiia { but I used shavings for bedding, and ! every morning with a large shovel I moved the wet shaving under the horses ! forward feet, and then the last thing at night cover these with dry shavings 1 for him to lie on. He also remarked ! that he never knew a flat-footed horse . but what was a great worker. 1 Narrow Escape.?The Hudson has ' a dam at Troy over which the water goes down an incline of thirty feet. Above the dam ice is cut for the city's use. Six men were at work when a space of nearly half an acre upon which they stood became detached. It floated rapidly toward the fall, to the horror of the six men and of the spectators on shore. Over they went, and were neither drowned nor seriously hurt. The ice was not badly broken in the shoot, as the water on the incline ran very smooth and high, and they were easily rescued. A Strangely, Sad Story, l ltlttle Girl Beaten and QrnUed by a Burglar--A Novel In one Chapter* The may be seen in an up-town milinery store here, says a New York corespondent, a pale and sad-faced roman, who, if any stranger gives her i Becond glance, bends over her work ind seeks to hide her awfully mutilated >ountenance. The forehead is crashed into her lead folly two inobes deep, the bone of he nose has been hideously broken, tnd one ear projeots from her hair in he neighborhood of the organs of belevolence and veneration. The duties of the little cnuntry girl or one pleasant October day were endid, and Minnie sat with her dolls in the litchon, when a knock at the door was leard. She answered it and found a ouzh looking man, who asked for a Irink of water and the nearest road to he next town. Little Minnie gave him rhat he asked and the man turned to lepart, but as he passed through the twinging gate he caught his thumb in t and crushed it so badly that the ratchful, kind child cried to him to some back and she'd give him somehing for it Bringing a bottle of arnioa the bound his bloody thumb up with >ne of her doll's calioo aprons and thus >anclaged, the thamb went off and took he roagh looking man with it, and tfinnie ate her snpper, put her babies o bed, said her prayers and went herlelf to sleep in a trnndle bed. This innt had married years before, separated from her husband and supposed lim dead. She kept a little millinery establishment, and had for a long time ived with her mother, a well-to-do old roman of eighty. Grandma this night ilept in the aunt's bed. The aunt had jone for some new fashions to the disinguished oapital, Burlington, so that .he two were alone in the house. About twelve a piercing cry from the >ld woman woke the girl, and starting ip she beheld two men with black cloth ever their heads and all their faces but heir eyes, one of them emptying the Irawer of the bureau, the other pulling he poor old woman down on the floor rom a window to which she had sprang. )ut climbed Minnie and laid hold of he ruffian, and a poor day for Minnie's eeauty it was. The merciless wretch nade quick work of the old woman. A >low on the head and a moment's presiure on the neck and the grandmother Fas quiet. Minnie shrieked and creamed, and with awful oaths the uurderer struck her on the head with i. flatiron two or three times, and left ler for dead beside her grandmother. Lfter searching the house they.'returned o the room where their viotims lay. ffinnie, notwithstanding her awful inuries, had regained her senses. She limly saw, through the clots of blood hat blinded her eyes, that the work of aurder was not yet complete. One of hem toro pieces from a cotton wadded omfortable on the bed, with a case ;nife packed it into the cracks beneath he ^'mop boards" around the room; >oured a can of oil upon 'it, set it on ire and left the bouse ; Minnie watched he whole operation, and saw that the nan who had mnrdered her grandnother, wore on his right thnmb the >lne calico doll's apron she had bonnd ipon the strange man in the afternoon. Lr no glimpse of the face had been 6een >n this second visit, this was the only ilne she had, bat as the little girl saw ew faces the countenance of the rounded man whose thumb she tied up ras stamped npon her memory, as inlelibly as the blow he had dealt her was >rinted on her poor, young forehead. The fire was creeping along in sevral places ; the smoke was pouring out rom between the overlapping boards of he frame house. Minnie crawled to he water pitcher, and dragging herself ibout the room ponerd the water on the mrning rags. A dense smoke arose rom them, and choked and fainting ilinnie became again unconscious, inally to be awakened by a great out:ry, as several early rising farmer >eighbors broke into the house. The >oor old woman had been hours dead, ind Minnie's chances for living were sour ted nothing, but the girl was young ind strong, and even with the rude ikili of country practitioners Minnie ?ot well, and dreadfully disfigured ived to work out a dreadful vengeance. The aunt returned and wept and nourned the mother murdered, and the ittle neice so terribly wounded. In luetime after Minnie was well a benevoent person took the child into the nountains of New Hampshire to regain ;he strength lost in that night of terror. During the visit which lasted all the lext summer, the supposed dead hns:iand of the aunt turned up, told a disnaltale of hardship in the mines of New South Wales, shipwreck and sickness in ;he four quarters of the globe. Womanike, the woman forgave the wanderer, ind selling the old farm at his instiga;ion, both went to live in Boston. 3ome months after this change, while he husband was nway, the aunt sent "or Minnie, and Minnie straightway >beyed, though the kind people Bhe vas with urged her to remain, saying :he poor, disfigured creature would not ittract the attention among them she vould in a city of strangers. Butaffeo:ion for her aunt determined the child. ind she arrived at her relative's and iad beeu there a week, when one evenng she, in passing through the hall, net a man to whom, after giving one ?lauce, she flew. Catching him by the :hroat she screamed like one mad. The different inmates of the house ipeedilv gathered on the scene. Minlie still clung to the man's throat, delonnced him as the murderer of her grandmother and her own would-be ;xecutioner. With horror, the aunt leard this statement, for the man to vhom the girl clung thus franticaUy vas the newlv-returned husband. The ;bild reiterated over and over again ;he story of the hand jammed in the ?ate, which she had done up, and the iuni rememoeren, wnen no nrst preicnted himself, he was losing the nail rrom his piratical old thumb, and suf'ered much pain with it, and told some ;ale of catching it in a marling spike or tome other nautical trap. She took tides with the niece, and was load and 3rm in her accusations as the poor lit:le witness. Some officious neighbors went for the police. The man was arrested and committed for examination. smart attache of the station-house went to the prisoner and told him ;hey'd got the other man and he'd jonfessed. This scared the ignorant wretch, and he admitted the whole iffair, laying the blame of the murder >n the accomplice. After a long and ;edious trial?the details of which Minlie. now an elderly woman, has forgot;en?the uncle was sentenced to State Prison for life. He bus been dead many rears- The married woman whose sarly life was so tragically eventful, inpports herself as a milliner, and is so imiable, pleasant and intelligent a person that upon acquaintance one almost forgets the fearful face that strikes a ] stranger as perfectly appalling in itB | hideousnets. This is the moral. All young people should remember that a ] sweet disposition will compensate for a forehead jammed in by a flat-iron. And though their ears be knocked to the top of their heads and stick up like a donkey's, they can walk off on those ears and be happy?if only they are good and cultivate nice manners. XLIIld CONGRESS. SENATE. On motion of Mr. Buckingham, of Conn., i the bill in relation to bounties was taken up and { passed. It provides that all who enlisted in i the army of the United States under the proo- j lamat:on of the President of May 3, ana pre- | vious to August, 1861, be paid the bounty of , $1,000, providing the same has not already | been paid. i Mr. Hitchoock, of Iowa, introduced a bill providing that all lands granted to railroad companies shall be subjected to State and county taxation. Committee on Public Lands. After one or two verbal amendments, the . thirty-ninth section of the original Bankrupt law, as amended and reported by the Judiciary < Committee, was agreed to by the 8enate. with . the exception of filling the blank as to the ' time when the provisions of the section should i apply to all cases of oompulaory or involuntary ' bankruptcy. Other amendments were agreed ' to. The Committee's amendments, as passed j by the Senate, fix the time at forty days within . which any banker, broker, merchant, trader. ' manufacturer or miner who has stopped ] or suspended, and not resumed payment of bis commercial paper, shall not be 1 deemed bankrupt, and prescribe that the fees, ( commissions, charges, and allowances, excepting actual and necessary disbursements of and < to be made by the officers, agents, marshals, < messengers, assignees, and registers in cases < of bankruptcy, shall be reduced to one-half of , the allowances heretofore provided for. The Justices of the Supreme Court, who are to make new rules and regulations in respect to ' the law, are empowered to consolidate the l duties of register, assignee, marshal, and clerk, and to reduce the oost of charges, to the \ end that prolixity, delay, and unnecessary expense may be avoided. Mr. Bout well, of Mass., introduced a bill ' amendatory of the National Currency act. i Referred to the Finance Committee. The < following is the full text of the bill: . Be it enacted <fcc., That it shall not be lawful , for auv banking association, organized under the said act, or anv act amendatory thereof, to ' pay interest on deposits to banks, banking < companies or banking associations ; nor shall ] any such banking association receive interest . upon money deposited with any bank, person, ' party, or corporation: and anv banking associa- 1 tion guilty of a violation of the provisions of < this act shall be liable to a penalty equal to four ] times the amount of interest so paid or received, j to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction, and it shall be the duty of the Comptroller of the Currency to cause proceed- < ings to be instituted for the recovery of the 1 penalties aforesaid and for the benefit of tne ] United 8tates. i Sec. 2. That not more than one-fourth part of the amount of lawful money of the United ' States that any such association may be re- < quired to have on hand, as iB provided in such i acts, shall consist of balances due to such associations, as is available for the redemption of | its circulating notes from banking associations . approved bv the Comptroller of the Currency. ' Mr. Gorden, of Ga., introduced a bill to * amend the internal revenue laws. It provides that all provisions of law hereto- j fore oxising in relation to the imposition of ? stamps upon written instruments, and all pen- j alties imposed by law for the omission or failure to stamp such instruments as bear date prior to 1 the establishment of revenue districts in the 1 J 41 1?ii:? i? ouucn eug?geu ui iuu ruucjiiuu, uo lupuaiuu. 1 Mr. Cameron, of Penn., from the Committee j on Foreign Relations, reported without amend- , ment the House bill requesting the President ' to extend, in the name of the United States, < a cordial invitation to foreign governments to j take part in the Centennial Exposition at j Philadelphia. Mr. Sumner, of MasB., offered an amendment , to the bankruptcy bill, which was agreed to, to ' the 21st section of the original act, as follows: 1 But a creditor proving his debt or claim shall ] not be held to uavo waived his right of action ( or suit against the bankrupt when a discharge i has been refused or the proceedings have been ' determined without a discharge. The bill hav- 1 ing been considered in the Senate as a Com- ( mittee of the Whole, was reported to the Senate aud the amendments were concurred in. j Mr. Johnson, of Va., modified his amendment, previously offered, to read as follows : All notices of sales under this act by any assignee 1 or officer of the court shall be published in the newspaper or newspapers to be designated by i the Judge, which in his opinion, shall be best j calculated to give general notice of the sale. Agreed to. The question then recurred on the 1 passage of the bill, and it was passed?Yeas, 1 43: Nays, 11. I Mr. Boutwell, of Mass., introduced a bill to \ provide for the survey and disposal of timber ( lands. It requires such lands in the mining 1 districts to be surveyed in tracts of 100 acres each and allows any person engaged in the < business of mining' to make entry of the i stumpage upon any one such tract and remove ] all the timber except one tree to the acre within ' three years, paying therefore at the rate of ' $2.50 per acre. The Secretary of the Interior 1 is also required to make surveys of the timber ] lauds suitable for agricultural purposes, and , any homestead or preemption settlor may enter . not exceeding forty acres of said timber lands j at the rate of $2.50 per acre. The Senate discussed Mr. Bayard's resolution 1 calling upon the President to inform the Senate 1 whether any officer of the United States Army i on duty in South Carolina had been instrumental in procuring compensation from the State for his sen-ices. The resolution went : over. The Chair laid before the Senate resolutions : of the Wisconsin Legislature, instructing the ; delegation in Congress from that State to vote for the passage of the law reducing the pay of all civil and military employees of the Government to a scale commensurate with the duties performed by them. Referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment. Mr. Sargent presented a memorial from California for the prevention of the evils arising from Chinese emigration. HOUSE. Mr. Dawes, of Mass., introduced a bill to reduce the rate of letter postage to two cents. By Mr. Flatt, of N. Y.?Fixiug tho salaries of the Postmasters of New York. Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, 8L Louis, Cincinnati, Baltimore, and San Francisco. It fixes the compensation of the Postmasters named at the following rates, viz: At New York. $10,000 ; Philadelphia, Boston. Chicago, and St. Louis, at $9,000 each ; and Brooklyn, Baltimore, and Cincinnati, $6,000; provided that such salaries shall bo paid from money received at the post offices from box rents, sales of postage stamps, and other sources in excess of the expenditures allowed and made thereat for rent, clerk nire, fuel, lights, furniture, stationery, printing, and the necessary incidentals. By Mr. Woodford, of N. Y.?To regnlate the hours of service in the departmentaat Washington. and to reduce the number of clerks. By Mr. Hmith, of N. C.?To repeal the internal revenue taxes on whisky and tobacco. By Mr. Stone, of Mo.?For the construction of the Fort St. Philip canal. Also for the free circulation of weekly newspapers. Mr. Cox. of N. Y., presented the memoria of Wm. Raddie and 4,162 citizens of New Yorkl for belligerent rights to Cuba. Mr. Butler, of Mass., made a personal explanation in the House in reply to attacks made upon him by tho press. The House in committee of the whole on tho Fortification bill took the following action : The items of 20.060 each for Forts Foote and Washington on the Potomac were stricken out, and the items for Forts Moultrie, Sumter, and Pulaski were retained. The appropriations for Fort McHenry, Md., and Fort Jefferson, Fla., were refused. The Committee then rose and reported the bill to the House, aud it was passed. Mr. Lowe, of Km., from tho Committee on Indian Affairs, reported a bill extending to the 1st of January. 1875, the time within which settlers on the Cherokee strip in Kansas, may make proof of settlement and payment, deferred payments to bear five per cent, interest. Passed The committee reported too Army Appropriation bill, and the House proceeded to vote ou the amendment*. The first vote was on the amendment offered by Mr. Young, of Georgia, extending the time for the presentation of claims to Nov. 1, 1875, The amendment was agreed to?Y'eap, 131: nays, 104 All the other amendments were agreed to in bulk, and the bill was passed. A bill for ascertaining the losses sustained by citizens of southim Oregon and northern California by reason of the Indian depredations in 1872 and 1873 provoked quite an excited discussion. Mr. Shanks (Rep., Ind.) defended the memory of Capt. Jack and his Modooe. and said it was a fact that when Gen. Canby was | holding his conference with Capt. Jack the | military linee were bebig closed around the Modocs. Mr. Nesmith.'Dem., Oregon) and Mr. Jf j Luttrell (Dem., CaL) defended the frontiersmen and the denunciators of the Indians, rhe bill itself was opposed by Mr. O. F. i Hoar, (of Mass.,) as establishing the dangerons precedent that the Government is responsible ?*' for the reimbursement of citizens damaged by Et war. The same ground was taken by Mr. Gar- Lc Held, (of Ohio.,) who argued that these losses 8a] resulted either from private murderers or from . public enemies, ana that in neither event '. jould citizens look to the Government for tic restitution. If this bill were passed it would be ppen the sluices of the Treasury to claims wl from Ohio and Indiana ar sing out of the Mortan raids, and from Fennsylvania arising out of . Leo's invasion, and there would not be a cent eft in the Treasury. The principle of the on tiill was defended by Mr. Averill, of Minn., ? who had reported it from the Committee on Claims, Mr. Lowe, (of Kansas.) and others. \t length, on motion cf Mr. Garfield, the enact ng clause was stricken out in Committee of Ha the Whole by a vote of 79 to 68. Then the sommlttee rose and reported that action to the R. House, and it was concurred in?Yeas, 105; J aays, 85. So the bill was defeated. ten sin Telegraphy. ?h bot The annual report of the Western res CJnion Telegraph Company for the year anding June 30th, 1873,which was pub- cin lished during the early part of the late j'n?' panic, attracted less attention than it of would otherwise have received, less than c?l om its importance demanded. Although I c this company is a private corporation, managed and controlled by a few large to 1 stockholders solely as a money-making ^j1 iffair, yet there are few matters entrust- am 3d to the General Government of great3r general interest. There is necesarily sntrnsted to it the most important cor- eev respondence, both mercantile and finan- we rial. A large banking business is trans- ?ul loted by its bureau for the transfer of jj* money. r6B Prices in all the prinoipal marts of hai the country for all articles of merchan- cor lise are regulated by the daily reports ??1 from its commercial bureau. Inoon- ^ aection with the Associated Press, it tin collects, collates, and furnishes to the sal laily papers all over the country their y?t telegrapnio dispatches, the most impor- viB tant news they publish, the first and aften the only "part of the paper read. i [t has become the educator of the peo- Uoi pie, and its influence is daily extending, j. antil it has become essential to the suosess of many departments of business. 1 ft has over 1.50,CKX) miles of wire stretching along every railway and reaching for jvery important place. Its annual re- Ha jeipts are nearly 810,000,000, a larger inf amount than the Post-office Department 1 received ten years ago. A corporation ? 1 wielding such immense power is not a private company, but one in which wij svery citizen has a direot and personal rer interest. ant The average rate of messages has seen reduoed in six years from $1.10 to for 31 cents and the business has been loublad. This great reduction in rates if) ( tias been followed by a slight increase p^, in the net income of the company, by rhe average rate is still much higher an; ihan in any other oountry, and so high erB is to prevent the use of the telegraph by any except the rich and those com- _ celled to nse it. The report says that foi heretofore the competition from rival Pc lines has been the most potent cause in 10 operation for compelling the company to reduce its rates ; but that it is now tt]( relieved from all fear from this service, ? it has recently purchased nearly all i the opposition lines, and at the present sta rates "it is impossible for any com- bo< peting company to realize profits, and b? ill are believed to be operating at a loss, and the time is not distant, there- ] fore, when the oompany will be with- pu cut a substantia] competitor." bei From this frank and publio statement me it appears that a change will now be tfa( made in its polioy, and that the publio of cannot expect further reduction in rates. ? Abroad the telegraph is connected M with the postofflce, and the people use m it freely as they do the mails. We do otl cot believe, however, that our Govern- wb ment should interfere in private mat- ?b ters, nor that the power of the Exeou- to tive should be enlarged; but the duty int cf transmitting correspondence was de- un rolved upon Congress by the founders cf our Republic, and, as it has wisely vi, undertaken this business, and per- jB1 formed it to the satisfaction of the it8 people, there is every reason why it should now adopt this, the latest, improvement for its rapid transmission. It is often said that corporations can ve perform any business cheaper than the 1D Government. Admitting the general truth of this 'proposition, it yet does tw not apply to the telegraph, for the agen- du cies now employed by the Postofflce Department for receiving and delivering ? letters would be used for the telegraphic g letter. The present clerks could perform all the office business,thus greatly reducing the expenses, if the Postmaster General was authorized to contract for the transmission of telegrams, as he now oontracts for the transmission of I the mails, at rates fixed by Congress. **"!?o ?"" r ? , ? indiBcretion, the victim wonders why o< "nothing does him good." Just so ; ? and the reason is that they all, or nearly Bi all, find a basis in alcohol?or poison. u To all thns discouraged, we can conscientiously say, "make one more trial," * Discard spirituous medicines, and give o nature a chance, aiding her in the Bj struggle by using one of her own pure 01 and unadulterated herb remedies, in the shape of Yinkoar Bitters. The * discoverer, Dr. J. Walker, of Cali- oc fornia, is no pretender, but an honor- p, able practicing physioian, and his dis- oj covery is the-result of years of labor and study. The wonderful cures a effected by them of Dispepsia, Fevers, F Rheumatism, and many other terrible J diseases, are almost incredible.?Com o r . ? Lson & Hamlin Cabinet Organs I Russia. rhcso instruments are making the cellence known to the sovereigns < trope as well as those of Americ maon alone has had nearly one thoi ad of them since the beginning < it year, and the London Choir mei ms it as significant that one of tl fit portraits of the Russian Princes tose recent marriage to the Duke < linburgh was so magnificently eel ated, represents her as playing c e of these popular American organ Com. Interesting to Inralld Ladles. blrmville, Colombia Co., N. Y., July 1873. Y. Piibce. M. D.: Oear Sir?Your favor is Just received. I i ided to have written to yon several wee ce concerning the improvement in my healt ich is now very apparent. I have used o tie of Favorite Prescription with the tx nits, aitnougn 1 wm aamu i was numowii eouraged after its use (for a short tit y). I took it tinder very disadvantage? jumstances?having the supervision of t ipe and dnring the season or " boose clea ; " I was obliged, throagh the inoompeten help, to do more than I ought, and, tree, suffered dreadfully, lifted when ght not to have raised my hand, and did i ould to bring "order out of chaos,"?b to laying aside all cares and continuing t nedy I find after using less than one boti be so much benefitted that I have disco tied the use, with no return of the symptoi which I wrote you. I have suffered terril 1 what added to my distress was the co Dusness of not procuring relief from ordina trees; at times it seemed about impossible nd so great was the distress. All of the ere neuralgic pains have disappeared; th re so bad at times I could hardly walk wit ; some external pressure. They seem re left me like magic, suddenly, and ha 1 no return.; all other symptoms have be aoved. The severe weakness and falntnc ?o disappeared, and I can go up stairs wi uparative ease now. I would have inform 1 ere this of my improvement, for I appi ted it, but I was fearful it was only transie leflt I was receiving, but I think snfflcie te has elapeed to consider the beneficial i ts permanent. Accept my best wishes 1 it future success ana your kindness in i ing me. Yours truly, Mas. M. Nettie Snydeb, Hearing Restored.?A great inve n. Send stamp for particulars, to Qeor Wood, Madison, Ind.?[Com. Fry Wistab's Balsam for your cough.--[Co Believe in no Old Woman's reci] a bad cough. Delay not an hour in usi le'h Honey or Hobehound and Tab. It allible.?[Com. Nke's Toothache Drops oure in one minul Com. Johnson's Anodyne Liniment i :hout doubt, the safest, surest, and b nedy that has ever been invented for interi 1 external use. It is applicable to a gn -iety of complaints, and Is equally benefic man or beast.?[Com. " How fortunes are made in Wall st. he title of a new book, explaining bow a rson can make money in stock speculatic investing from $ 10 to $100. Mailed free j address by L. W. Hamilton & Co., Bar I, 48 Broad street, New York.?Com. We have seen it stated in vario >er? throughout the country, that Agei the sale of Sheridan's Cavalry Condi/i iwders were authorized to refund the moi any person who should use them and not isfied with the result. We doubted this it, but the proprietors authorize us to t it it is true.?[Com. A bill lor tiie purpose 01 connecting the telegraph with the Post-office De- h partment authorizing the PostmasterGeneral to contract for the transmission of telegrams, was reported by committees of the Senate and House of Representatives at the last Congress. This proposition, we presume, will come up ] for action the ensuing winter and we _ nrill ViAcnmn n. law. The rates ? fixed by the bill are nearly CO per cent, below present charges, while the length df the telegram is 80 per cent. b< greater. Night telegrams will be transmitted at a still greater reduction. The charge of a telegraphic letter of 25 words sent by night 1,500 miles or less will be only 25 cents. Such low rates will make tho telegraph a public ? blessing, bring it within the reach of all, r\ and enable the press to establish new and independent news associations. We shall refer again to this subject.?The Bj Independent. State Assayer Bartlett, of Maine, as- ^ serts that several factories are in opera- st tion in the commonwealth producing j*' cheap sugar and sirup from sawdust li and other substances. The sugars and p< sirups are corrected by sulphuric acid, B' lime, and other ingredients. Nil Desperandum. A real healthy man or woman, is a rarity; and what wonder ? when we _ realize that it is tho custom to overload the stomach, and then produce chronic B disease by the use of spirituous liquors, st "Tonics,""Appetizers,""Restoratives," ? at/% TTa vine first nrndnred disease bv w Cbibtadoko's Exoelsiob Haib D ,nda unrivaled and alone. Its merits ha an so universally acknowledged that it woi a supererogation to descant on them a ther?nothing can beat it.?Com. ?erry Davis' Pain-Killer baa been before t blic over thirty years, and baa a wider a ttcr reputation than any other proprieti idicine of the present day. At this peri sre are but few unacquainted with the me: the Pain-Killer; but while some extol a liniment, they know but little of ita por easing pain when taken internally, wl lers use it internally with great succoas, 1 o aro equally ignorant of ita healing virti en applied externally. We therefore w say to all that it is equally successful ui emally or externally, and it stands to-< rivaled by all tho great catalogue of Fan >dicines. It is sufficient evidence of tues as a standard medicine, to know thai now used in all parts of the world, and tl sale is constantly increasing. No curat ent has had a more wide-spread sale or gii ch universal satisfaction. It is a pur getable compound, and perfectly safe, ei unskilled hands.?[Com. Flaqo's Instant Relief has sto enty years' test. Is warranted to give imi ite relief to all Rheumatic, Neursdgio, He ir and Back aohea, or monev refunded.?C< OUSEHOLD Why will You Suflei PANACEA T? >! paraona "offer from EhoumaUsm.h'curali AND Cramps In the limbe or et FAMILY *ch, Blliont Colic, Fain In jINIMENT. back,bowels or s de.we wo say Thb Household Paha ahd Family Lihimbht is ol OUSEHOLD oth#r| the remedy yon w PAN ACE A for internal and external i A?-D It has cured the above c plaints in thousands of ca FAMILY There is no mistake abou LiINIMENT. Try it. Sold by all Druggi The Mai Sets. saw toe*. ?/ Cattle?Prime to Extra Bullockal ,12 V? -J Firet quality \ Second quality .10149 Ordinary thin Cattle... .08>?a .. Inferior or loweetgrade .07*9 .1 nch ,eeP. T::::. ?*** ' itton?Middling ?' our?Extra Western J.fiO ??' SUte Extra J ?0 0 ~-{ heat?Bed Western j." ? } No. 3 Bprlng............... J." krley?Malt lU?Mixed Western 77 a . nw w ton >?-?? a18 73'e 25^40?We , 8 a . ?7? ?16ifd t'o a ' itrolenm?Crude 7jjfa7\ Beflned utter?8Ute ? a Ohio, Fine 28 a . ? Tellow :? a Weetern ordinary 23 a . Pennsylvania fine 85 a . IMM?SUte Factory 10 a <> Skimmed .0? a Ohio a fga?SUte 21 aurvALo. leep - off*?Lire 5 00 a 5. lour 7.25 a 0. best?No. 2 Spring 1.43 a 1. jrn 73 a . itfl. ? W a . re 1 oo a 1 irlpy 1.33 a 1. ird MH? uun. beat ?? 1.43 a 1. ire?State 90 a 1 arn?Mixed 88 a . xrley?State 1.70 a 1. He?State 39 a . rmuDiLriu. lour .. 7.30 a 8. beat?Weetern Bad 1.38 a 1. arn?Yellow 81 a . Mixed 73 a . atroleom?Ornde 13 Beflaed. iorar Baed 7.00 alO. Timothy 3.80 a 3. aaLnxou, sttoD?Low Middling IS a . lour?Kxtra 8.30 a 8. beet <...., 1.35 al. arn .90 a , Mi .30 , 0 %? In VH1KTT TEAM1 BlFiniKSCB OW ] AW OLD IVRIE. ' IU W1HSL0WE SOOTUINQ SYRUP IS 4111 lr PRESCRIPTION OP oat of lb* bolt female Phy*lelan* and Rurttt In tbt United State*, and bat R. btea need for thirty ytari with nartr falling lately j. and tncctit by million! of mother* and cblldrta from tbt fttblt Infant of ont wtok old to tbt ad nil It eorrtete acidity of tb* atomaob, rtUtrt* wind oollo, regulate* tbt bowel*, and girt* re?t, health 10 and comfort to mother and child. We beltave It to 8? be the Beit and Bureit Remedy In the World in all Tf eaec* of DYSBNTP.RY and ImaRRHGSA lit CHIIr DREIf, whether It artaea from Teething or from 6- any otbo' cane*. Pall direction* for uelng will aocoinpanj each bottle. None Oeuulut unite* the >D fac-etml le of CUETIS A PERKINS It on the outside > 8. wrapper. L SOLD HT ALL MEDICUCE DEALERS. CIIILDHKH OFTXH LOOK PALS AND HOC g from ao other canet than baring worms tn tbt etomach. J BROWTTS VERVIFUOB C0WPTT1 Q- will dtetroy worm* without injury to tbt child, ks being parftotly WHITE, and fret from all oolorlng ^ h, or othtr Injurlou* lugrtdltnt* ntnaUy ottd la P' ne worm prtparatloni. ti (8t CUETIS * BROWN, Proprietor*, tfc at Ho. Ml 5 Fulton Street, Raw Torh. uj 1? bWd by Druaqxt'.i nnii Ch. mirtt, and dtalsri te ni as Mtdiritui at TweaTT-Flve C?BT? A Box. ho MIITHIHO BETTER." CntlirBrm.Boilon y ,11 - Dr John Ware. celebrated Vioktablb (1; cv PumonAtT Balsam, for Colde and Consumption. ^ of Boat and Oldest Family Medicine.?dan T] X f irs'* Livtr Invigorator-b purely Vegetable Oathar .11 .ie and 7V>n<e-f0rDyspep*la, Constipation,Debility t? u' Blck Headache, Billons Attacks, and all deranye at esente of Liver, Stomach and Bowels. Ask yow tl he Druggist for It. Brtoart of tmitatinnt. Jj] a UTTCTAn^CU Enterprising young and ol Y D U i^llv middle-aged men and wo- u: ilj men ambitious to make a snccesstul start In bust- U1 ,n- nets, are offered snpertr.r facilities for preparing CC _ themselves at the 8PENCERIAN BU8INES8 COb- n, J7 LEOE. Milwaukee, Wis V ? EMPLOYERS OF GERMANS! 2 Please Inform ihem that the cheapest Emlaratton a- to New Tork Is by the new pupalar direct steamers tfc to from Rotterdam. South Q*rm?ns and Swiss save t> ve eight dollars.travellog more pleasantly. From eta- ^ ttons on Mhine free to Rotterdam. Psckage* s?nt en to and received from "Europe. Write to Monais ? ?fl Bubofkax Expkkss y>B'uw> NY. Agents wanted v 3 HO! FOR COLORADO! e e- With ltsfflnrlons climate, magn'flcent setnery. ti iQt mlilng resonrces, stock growing, firming and _t health advantages. General and special tnfirmanl tinn given froe. Address A. H. PATTERSON, Fort p r6- Collins, Colorado. " ?J ANY Sending ns the address of ten persons, with I Kl- Hill jo cts. will receive /res, a beaattfnl Chromo 8, nair and Instructions how to get rich, post-paid, un t City Novelty Co.. 108 South 8th St.. Phtla., Pa. A Private Institution I For the cure of Insanity, F.nllersy, Inebrlscy. r ge Address SANITARIUM, Cincinnati. O. ^ ^8 TWO WIVKS, a novel by Mary Clemmer _ Ames, Jua? begun In Every Saturday. Pub- r ltehed ty H. O. Houghton A Co . Bostan, weekly, fl a year. Sp'endld paper. Sand 10c for sample copy. Pe T A DIE* and GRNTI.EMEN I?If you went J Dg L a package of the neatest and beat Vtettlng [{ ia Csrds ever printed, tend fiO cents to the National t PBiimxo Co., Dubuque, Iowa. 1 A PLAYS 1 PL* Y*1 I PLAYS I PLAYSM 1 Dramatic Eutertali men's, H .me Amusements. J Send for a catalogueo' 11,000. Samuel Fbbsch <1 _ 8- x, 123 Nassau Street, New York. ? ? THE GOLDEN EGG ' 111 For Agent*. Large Income guaranteed. Enclose ? stamp for clrcnl'r. R. Allison.113Chambers 8t.,N.Y. ial PER DAY Commission or gUO a week C Alley Salary, and expenses. We offer It and will i pay It Apply now. Q. Wbbbke A Co., Marlon, 0. g ? Each week. A?enis wanted, parm-u, i U lara free. J. WORTH <t CI'.. 8t. Lonlt. Mi 11 I Wood's Hooselld Magazine. I The Best Dollar Monthly. - $5 to $15i:r?3K"I \ on ~ ' toL?with Chromo, The Yosemite Valley, ac ^ 14x20 Inches, In 17 Oil Colors. " y Magazine, one jresr. with Mounted Chromo, {2.00 " . Magazine, one'year. with Unmounted Chromo, l.fiO g Magazine, alone, one rear, .... j.oo Examine our Clubbing and Premium Lists. 2 Two First-class Periodicals tor the price f YE of one. We solicit Kxpertenced Canvassers .vf, and others to send at once for terms and Sped Tj men Magazine. Addreas M. K. SIICTES, Pub- . ua Usher, 41 Park Bow, N. T. City, or Newbnrgh. W. Y. t " HO! FOR COLORADO! ' hn With ltsg1"rlous climate, magnificent acenery, nlnlog resources, stock grow.tig, farming and ,nd health adrautag, s. Oenerai and special inform* S ttou slrtn free. AJdresa A. H. PATTXKbOP, Port r try Col'los, Colorado. - J i0d I W |fcI to tlOO lnrested In WaU-8t j 'its UBvsJBSSfl 111 often leads to a Fortune. No 1 rt"k- 33-page pamphlet free. it Vnlmtln* Tstwlhridg* it Co., VOr Bankers and Broken, 38 Wall-et., IT. Y. ] $100 A MONTH tbs Improved I | JUt Home Shuttle Sewing Machine. Only 1 >w-prlced . loek-stiten michlne ever Invented. Down with the 1 monopoly Ougat not th'- best sewing machine be , jglj soldf -r>40. H -mk SnPTTUt S.M.Co., 766 B'dw y. N.Y, 1 ?ed " " AGENT8 WANTED FOE THE HISTORY OF THE J GRANGE MOVEMENT ! 5 OR THE FARMER'S WAR AGAINST MONOPOLIES, l ire being a full and authentic account of tbc sirug- I /lea of the American Painters against the cxtor- f 7611 lions of the Bstlioad Companies, with a history ot the rise and pri gross of the Order of Patrons ot 1 0'? Husbandry ; its oliJ-?ctt and p ospscts. It sells at reD sight. Send for specimen pages and terms to . Agents, and sec why It sells foster tbi" any othoi v.. u I.Hr... K A LION A L l'L'Bl 18HIN0 CO.. , Ph i c l"h I a . Pa I od MnnnHBVKriaBBni zvzziB.cnastz's 9 ! - GARGLNG OIL The Stand&rd Liniment of the United SUtee. | IDff 19 GOOD FOR J Burn. and Scalds, Rheumatism, \ om- Chilblains, Hemorrhoids or Filet, Sprains and Bruises, Sore Kijtples, tlie Chapped Hands, Caked Breasts, I lUl(j Flesh Wounds, Fistula, Mange, Frost Bites, Sins tins, Streeney, c*a F.xlernal Poisons, So atches or Grease, I .< Sand Cracks, Shinghalt, Windualls, | Galls of all kinds. Foundered Feet, lit Sit fast. Ringbone, Cracked Heels, Poll Bvit, Foot Rot in Sheep, Bites of Animals, Roup in Poultry, i om- Toothache, Lame Back, <fc., tfe. , ict Large Size tl.00. Medium 50c. Small 25c. Small 8lxs for Family U?e, 98 cent*. I | The Gargling Oil lt:tt been in use as al *t?. liniment since 1S33. All we askisa/atrl 1 trial, but l* sure and follow directions. i Ask your nearest Druggist ordealerin Pat-1 ent Medicines for one of our Almanacs, and read what the people say about the Oil. I The Oargling Oil Is for sale by all re-1 " *"*"? '"?( ilimtiirhnut the United| 12 Statu and other omntriet. Illtf Our testimonial*<\nte fmv 1833 to the presKjJ ent,arnlareun.?ortH/ed. W?-also manufacture )3 merchant'! Worm Tablet*. j? We deal fair and literal with all, and ? defy rontrailictio- Manufactured at 5?* Lockport, N. Y.. U. 8. A., by i?' Merchant's Garbling Oil Co., jjj JOHN HOME. ttacrrtMy. 08 ? $500 REWARD ?S?ks35-?S?b 87 llLLACOia. UUn.kliwM. U, fc j^l tUl K Per Day. 1,000 Agouti wanted. Bend 18 ? At/ Stamp to A. n. Blair * Co.. Mt. Louli, Mo. I CQimliHiioN w And Its Cure. u WILLSON'S ? Carbolated Cod Liver Oil 5? Ii>eclentlflecombination of two well-known medl |S cine*. Ita theory la ilrat to arreat the decay, then 65 bnlld op the aystem. Phyalctana find the doctrine corOJ rect. The really aUrtllng curea performed by Will60 aon'a Olljtre proof. in Carbolic Add pnMUvely arrtxUt Decay, ft U the moat powerful antlaeptlc In the known world. Entering Into the circulation. It at once grapplea with Q* corruption, and decay ceaaca. It purlflra the aoorcea of dlacaae. 00 God liter (Hit* Nature'* be*t wuUtant In realatfng 90 Conaumntlon. 09 Pat up In large wrdgrnhaped boll lea, 00 bearing the inventor'a ilgnarart, and la Wild bTlltt beet Draggleta. Prepared by M or. H. wiiiii?ow, M H3 John Ntnet. Hew Yorftr iwwwi ?* ts to S20 frApsi.'s td.ts: 80 or old, make mora money at work for na In thalr apare 63 moawnta.orall the tlma, than at anything elao. Particu? lam free. Addxeae 0. SmaoM A fa. PerUaod. Mala* v ' i lllihlililllllliM Dr. J. Walker's California Yin^ar Bitters are a purely Vegetable eparation, made chiefly from the na- ?, ve herb? found on the lower ranges 01 10 Sierra Nevada mountains of Califora, the medicinal properties of which ~e extracted therefrom without the uco ' Aieohol. The question la almost lily asked, "What is the cause of the 3paralleled success of Viitkgab BitersT" Our answer is, that they remo* le cause of disease, and the patient re* )vers his health. They are the great lood purifier and a life-giving principle, perfect Renovator and Invigcrator the system. Never before in tho> story of the world has a medicine been impounded possessing the remarkable lahtiea of Yisioaa Bitters in healing the sk of every disease man is heir to. They e a gentle Purgative as well as a Tonic, having Congestion or Inflammation of is Liver ana Visceral Organs, in Bilious is oases. The properties of Dr. Walker's iirsoaa Bitters are Aperient, Diaphoretic, arminative, Nutritions, Laxative, Dinretic, edative, Counter-irritant, Sudorific. Alterave. and Anti-Bilious. Urateiiil Thousands proclaim Vin:gak Bittbrs the most wonderful Inigorant that ever sustained the sinking yetem. No Person can take these Bitters ccording to directions, and remain long inwell, provided their bones are not detroyed by mineral poison or other aeaus, and vital organs wasted beyond epair. Billons. Remittent and Internittent Fevers, Which are so prevasnt in the valleys of our great rivers hroughout the United States, especially hose of the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, llinois, Tennessee, Cumberland, Arkan" > rt-l 1- n dl? as, rtea, uoiorauu, im ci^uo, mu uiouuq, 'earl, Alabama, Mobile, Savannah, Ro.uoke, James, and many others, with heir vast -tributaries, throughout our ntire country during the Summer and lutunm, and remarkably so during seaons of unusual heat and dryness, are nvariably accompanied by extensive deangements of the stomach and liver, .nd other abdominal viscera. In theirreatmcnt, a purgative, exerting a powrful influence upon these various organs, is essentially necessary. There < a no cathartic for the purpose equal to )r. J. Walker's Vinegar Bitters, s they will speedily remove the darkolored viscid matter with which the towels are loaded, at the same time timulating the seoretions of the liver, * ind generally restoring the healthy unctions of the digestive organs. Fortify the body against disease >y purifying all its fluids with Vinegar Jitters. No epidemic can take lioif-. ?f a system thus fore-armed. Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Headtcbe, Pain in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of the Chest, Dizziness, 8our Eructations of the Stomach, Bad Taste n the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Palpitaation of the Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain in the region of the Kidioys, and a hundred other painful symp;oms, are the offsprings of Dyspepsia. )ne bottle will prove a better guarantee if its merits than a lengthy advertisenent. Scrofula, or King's Evil, White swellings, ll leers, Erysipelas, Swelled Neck, Soitre, Scrofulous InilainuiatioDs, Indolent Inflammations, Mercurial Affections, Old Sores, Eruptions of the Skin, Sore Eyes, etc. In these, as in all other constitutional Disjases, Walker's Vinegar Bittbrs have ihown thaii great enrativo powers in the nost obstinate and intractable cases. For Inflammatory and Chronic Rheumatism, Gout, Bilious, Itemittentand Intermittent Fevers, Diseascsof ;he Blood, Liver. Kidneys and Bladder, ;heae Bitters have no equal. Such Diseases ire caused by Vitiated Blood. Mechanical Diseases.?Persons engaged in Paints and Minerals, such as Plumbers, Typo-setters, Gold-beaters, and Miners, as they advance in life, are subject to paralysis of the Bowels. To guard igainst this, tako a doso of Walker's Vin t> KUAU JDI'l I Ann wtiwiuiittjjj. For 8kin Diseases, Eruptions, Tetter, fialt-Rheum, Blotches, Spot*, Pimples, Pustules, Boils, Carbuncles, Ring-worms, Scald-bead, Soro Eyes, Erysipelas, Itch, Scurfs, Discoloration* of the Skin, Humors and Diseases of the Skin of whatever name or nature, are literally dug up and carried i>ut of the system in a short time by the use i)f these Bitters. Pin, Tape, and other Worms, lurking in the system of so many thousands, are elfectnally destroyed and removed. No system of medicine, no vermifuges, no anthelmiuitics will free the system from worms like these Bitters. For Female Complaints, in young or old, married or single, at the dawn of womanhood, or the turn of life, these Tonic Bittors display so decided an influence that improvement is soon perceptible. Cleanse the Vitiated Blood whenever you find its impurities bursting through the skill in Pimples, Eruptions, or bores; cleanse it when you find it obstructed and sluggish in the veins; cleanse it when it is foul: vour feelimrs will tell you when. Keep the blood pure, uud the health of the system will follow. r. h. Mcdonald a com Dru^lsU and Gen. Ajrta.. Sao Francisco, California, and cor. of Wueliinirtoii and Charlton St*., N. Y. Sold by nil Druggist* and Dealers. NTH P? Wo 8 HUltifflll the^N!ECTar TiTiBmr Blftclt Tea IfjVHHra With the Oreen Tea FlSTbr. fhs best Te? imported, lor sale everywhere. Sr. a for sal* rnBrHh whflesale out* by the Great Cw JHrall itiantie ma Pacific Tea Co-'' 9 rej?B?lWlI 90. SR and S7 Vesey Street, Mew York. P. 0. Box, 6.60fl. Send b r ^30"' ? ea-9e'tsr Circular. Ceocf, BaoacinTjnsncntly WHD V/? Which does not dry np a eoufh *n<l k*vo the caase behind, bat loosen* It, cleanse* the long* ted albjra iniutlon, that removing the ctote of the complaint CONSUMPTION CAN BE CUBED br t timely resort to this standard remedy, a* It proved bjr nnndreda of testimonial* U bat received. The onuin* It sUpisd "J. ButU" on the wrapper, BETH W. JTOWLB A BON9, Pnoraixioia, BoaTot. Matt. Bold by deakc* generally. . EXTERMINATORS ^STahii inseqt powder fob